Flynn and Gem were busy going over the footage of Mr. Winchester's message to them, hoping to glean some kind of clue as to his whereabouts. No one had liked the idea of Scott surrendering himself to Winchester's captivity, but none of them could come up with another plan that wouldn't result in him setting Lilith loose on the city.
"We've been over this footage a thousand times; if there was a clue we would have found it." Flynn announced in frustration, throwing his hands up. "He's too smart to let us know where he's hiding them."
"We have to keep trying; Scott and Sarah are counting on us." Gem reminded him as he started the footage again. "We have to be missing something, surely."
"Have you found anything?" Ziggy asked them, leading Tenaya into the room. Since Sarah had been kidnapped while she was performing the procedure to remove Tenaya's eyes and analyse them to understand how to make more, she was now blind. Ziggy had been taking care of her, leading her around the building. They had sent Alex to stay with Ziggy's parents while they searched for her. Tenaya didn't want to upset her son unduly by letting him see her blind until they knew whether or not her condition would be permanent.
"Not yet." Flynn sighed, analysing the footage. "He's been pretty clever. He's not even got any real windows visible for us to analyse for landmarks..."
"Wait, what was that?" Tenaya asked them as she felt around; finding the chair Ziggy was leading her to.
"What was what?" Gem asked her. Tenaya sat on the chair, listening more intently.
"That sound...there's a train passing." She told them. Flynn and Gem just looked at each other.
"There isn't a train line within a mile of here." Flynn reminded her.
"No, not here...in the video." She explained. Gem stopped the footage and went back to the beginning.
"I can't hear anything." He responded. Ziggy just looked at him.
"She was blind for most of her life." He reminded the Gold Ranger. "If she says she hears a train, I'd trust her."
Gem ran it through the computer, setting it to analyse each and every sound on the track. He filtered through them, before finding what he was looking for.
"She's right, there is a train." He told them. "It ran past about a minute into the footage."
"So his hideout's near a train line." Flynn commented. "Well that's a start at least. It narrows it down to anywhere near a train line."
"I heard something else." Tenaya told them. "Gem, play it again, around five seconds after the train passed."
He did as she asked, at which she nodded.
"I thought I heard something, it's a low, loud horn, kind of like a truck." She told them. "Or maybe a foghorn from a ship, I can't tell."
"There's a haulage yard near the station on fifth." Gem commented. "There's also a train line on the Liberty Dock."
"Is there anywhere else that might have those things?" Flynn asked, scribbling a few notes.
"There's a trucking firm near the line on Eighth Avenue." Ziggy informed them. "Dad used to own it."
"So that gives us a couple of possible areas to search." Flynn commented, pulling on his jacket. "Gem, call Carter."
Over in the underground lab, Sarah and Scott looked up as Lilith stormed back into the room. She grabbed a computer and threw it against the wall, destroying it in a shower of sparks.
"What am I?" She screamed as Sarah and Scott backed up. "What did they do to me?"
"Lilith, calm down." Sarah said as calmly as she could to her homicidal sibling. "I'll pull up all the information I can..."
"Use these!" She replied, placing a hand and an eye on the table. Scott and Sarah looked at each other in horror. Her hands were covered in blood.
"Are those..."
"They're Winchester's!" Lilith told them. "He's dead, now access his files!"
Sarah reluctantly made her way over, picking up the body parts. She couldn't bring herself to feel any sympathy for her captor. He had stolen so much from her, he deserved to be punished, but she still felt uncomfortable about what her sister had done. She took them to a console, activating a fingerprint scan.
"That's the first level of security passed." She whispered, before holding the eyeball up. As it was scanned, she felt a shiver down her spine. She couldn't help feeling disgusted at the thought she was holding an eye that had been ripped from a man's head within the last few minutes. "I'm in."
"Download the programme!" Lilith demanded, sitting in her chair and placing a headset on her head. "I want to know everything."
"Lilith..."
"Do it now!" She barked angrily. Sarah searched for the appropriate file and clicked the download command. Lilith sat on the chair, flinching and jerking as the information was uploaded directly into her mind.
"Sarah, she's out of her mind." Scott told her. "We need to..."
"Winchester's dead, she's the only one who can open the door." Sarah reminded him. "We can't get out."
Lilith's eyes snapped open as the download completed, and a couple of tears leaked down her face.
"I was nothing." She whispered weakly. "I was surplus."
"Lilith, stay calm..."
"They only wanted you!" She shrieked, getting up from the chair. "The project was all about you!"
"Lilith, you can't..."
"I wasn't even meant to be born!" She screamed, as she covered her face with her hands. "We were twins!"
"Lilith..."
"They turned me into...this...because they didn't know what else to do with me!" She screamed angrily, slapping her hand against her chest a couple of times. "They had their Galileo project success; they had no use for me!"
"Lilith, you're a person. You're not a purpose." Sarah stated, trying to calm her emotional sibling. "What they did to you..."
"They made me a monster!" Lilith screeched, swiping Sarah away with her hand. Sarah fell to the floor, blood pouring from a deep wound in her arm where Lilith's claws had sliced her open. "I'm not human, I'm nothing!"
"Lilith, your sister's hurt!" Scott told her as he rushed to Sarah's side, lifting her up a little and cradling her softly as he inspected her wound. Lilith looked down to her sister, and then to her hand, seeing her blood dripping from the claws.
"This is what I am; I am nothing but a weapon." She whispered. "I'm an instrument of death."
"Lilith, we need..."
"They took everything from me!" She interrupted him. "I can't be returned to normal! I can't be human again! I'm..."
"Lilith, shut up and help me!" Scott yelled as he pulled off his shirt, wrapping it around Sarah's arm to stop the bleeding. "Your sister..."
"Only humans have sisters." She hissed dismissively. "I'm a monster, one designed to kill."
She turned and strode to the door. Scott got to his feet as he saw this.
"Where are you going?" He asked her.
"I'm going to do what I was programmed to do." She informed him. "I'm going to destroy."
With that, she locked the door behind her. Scott went back to Sarah who was pulling herself up on a nearby desk.
"Sarah, you shouldn't..."
"Scott, we have to stop her." She told him.
"Sarah, we need to get out of here..."
"She's powerful, she's confused, she's angry and more importantly she's completely out of her mind!" Sarah reminded him. "When she's like that, she's more dangerous than ever!"
Over at the hospital, Dana and Professor Stewart were examining Hicks following his surgery. Professor Stewart was prodding his new hand gently with a pen.
"So you felt all of that?" He asked. Hicks smiled.
"It's amazing, it's like having my old hand back." He told him, flexing his fingers. "I felt all of it."
"I wasn't sure I could replicate the connection between the nervous system and the artificial flesh, but if you're feeling that, it seems it worked." Professor Stewart said happily. "I couldn't have ever dreamed creating something like this within my lifetime. This will have advanced bionic science by decades."
"Am I interrupting?" Gemma asked as she knocked the door and came into the room. "How are you?"
"I have a full set again." Hicks told her, holding up his hand to show her. "I'm still one eye short of a full set, but at least I have ten digits again."
"Flynn just called. We have a couple of leads we can check on." She informed him.
"I'll be at the command centre." Hicks stated, picking up his shirt.
"Hicks, you've just had surgery." Dana reminded him. "You..."
"Can you replace my eye yet?" He asked her. She shook her head. "Then there's no reason for me to stay. I'll be more use at my desk than here."
"Your body's gone through a lot." Professor Stewart chipped in. "Maybe..."
"Tenaya was once buried under over a ton of rubble and walked away." He interrupted him. "I have the same technology in me. It'll take more than a little surgery to keep me down."
In another part of town, Lilith strode through the streets of Corinth. She wiped her tears from her eyes periodically as she made her way through the city. She now knew the truth about her life. She was a thing, a failed experiment, something that should never have existed. She was a mistake.
When The Macha Group had begun the Galileo Project, Sarah's mother had gotten herself pregnant to have the child they would use to create their think tank. There was only one complication. Instead of one child, there were two.
When they discovered that Sarah's mother was having twins, they had considered many options, including aborting one of the babies, but instead came up with another solution. Using state-of-the-art techniques, they harvested desirable genetic traits from one child and put it into the other. Sarah was the favoured child. She was given everything.
Once the girls were born, rather than simply dispose of the remaining child, they opted to turn her over to their research team. The Lilith project was the culmination of a lifetime of upgrades to a child that was essentially a spare.
"Hold it right there!" A soldier ordered her, levelling a blaster at her. Lilith turned slowly, looking at him through puffy, red eyes.
"You know the orders; we're not to confront her." His partner reminded him.
"I don't give a damn; she butchered some of my best friends!" The first stated. "Robo bitch is going down!"
"I killed your friends?" Lilith asked him. "You are upset by this?"
"Shut it you blood soaked maniac!" He roared.
"Why does it upset you?" She asked them. "You look like you're in pain, but I haven't done anything to you..."
"Shut up!" He yelled, firing a blast. Lilith swatted it aside with her claws, before rushing towards him, ripping him open from his abdomen to his neck in one swipe. She turned on his partner.
"Why do you hate me?" She asked him. "What have I done?"
"Stay away from me!" He stammered, pulling out a hand blaster. Lilith rushed forward, cutting him down before he could squeeze off a single round.
Back in the underground lab, Sarah was lying on a bench, while Scott worked furiously with some of the lab equipment. She looked over to him wearily.
"What are you doing?" She sighed.
"You aren't the only one who knows her way around a chemistry set." He informed her. "I told you how my dad was very military minded right? He always taught me and Marcus things that would help if we ever entered the forces?"
"I remember you saying that yes." She told him.
"Well when I was about 10, he gave me a copy of The Anarchist's Cook Book." He told her. She sat up.
"Isn't that the one...?"
"It taught me how to make some pretty gnarly explosives." He interrupted her with a grin. "I had read that book cover to cover about a thousand times before I was 11."
"Scott, those doors are meant to withstand a C4 blast." She reminded him.
"Well this might not open them." He told her, holding up a device. "But it'll make a hell of a big bang. Someone should hear it and come running."
With that, he placed the device by the doors, priming it to go off. He rushed over to the opposite corner of the room, taking Sarah with him.
"Cover your ears." He told her. "The fourth of July's coming a little early this year."
Ziggy and Flynn were wandering the streets surrounding the train station on Eighth Avenue.
"This is hopeless; it's like looking for a needle in a hay barn." Ziggy sighed. "We don't even know what we're looking for."
Just then, a large explosion sounded. Flynn put a hand on Ziggy's chest.
"I think that might be what we're looking for." He told him as they ran towards the sound.
Lilith continued on her path through the city, looking around at the people in disgust. By now the entire city knew exactly who she was, and anyone seeing her got up and sprinted away as fast as their legs would carry them. Almost every street she went to was either deserted, or was very quickly after she arrived.
Making her way down this street, she paused as she heard a little voice.
"Honey, I'm home." A young voice said. She lowered her visor, scanning to find the source of the voice. Behind a hedge, she noticed one life signature. Her visor snapped open, and she approached a fence in the hedge.
"How was your day dear?" The voice asked in a different tone, imitating a different voice. "Oh, you know the same old stuff."
Lilith opened the fence and made her way into the front yard of a house, finding a young girl sitting there in front of a doll's house, playing with her dolls. Lilith stood and watched as the girl continued to play, oblivious to her presence.
"The kids are all out for the evening." She continued with the scene. "It's just us."
Lilith approached her slowly, flexing her hands a little as she approached the young girl slowly. There was a squeaking noise, and she looked down, realising she had accidentally stepped on one of the girl's toys. Looking back up, she saw the girl looking at her.
"Hello." She greeted Lilith. "Do you like my dolls?"
Lilith looked between the girl and her toys, a confused look across her face. She just nodded in reply."
"Your head, you have a boo boo." The girl continued, pointing to her. Lilith reached for the side of her head, where she had carved out the control chip only a few hours ago. "Does it hurt?" Lilith shook her head.
"Do you want to play with me?" The girl asked her, holding up one of her dolls. Lilith reached out with her clawed, blood-stained hand.
